Publications

Cloud Properties

Pavolonis, M. J. and A. K. Heidinger, 2004: Daytime cloud overlap detection from AVHRR and VIIRS. J. Appl. Meteor., In Press.

Pavolonis, M. J., A. K. Heidinger, and T. Uttal, 2004: Daytime global cloud typing from AVHRR and VIIRS: Algorithm description, validation, and comparisons. Submitted to J. Appl. Meteor.

CONUS Cloud Products

Bedka, K .M., and J. R. Mecikalski, 2005: Application of satellite-derived atmospheric motion vectors for estimating mesoscale flows. Submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Schreiner, A. J., T. J. Schmit, and R. M. Aune, 2002: Maritime inversions and the GOES sounder cloud product. National Weather Digest, 26, 27-38.

Schreiner, A. J., T. J. Schmit, and W. P. Menzel, 2001: Observations and trends of clouds based on GOES sounder data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 20349-20363.

Convective Weather

Mecikalski, J. M., and K. M. Bedka, 2004: Forecasting convective initiation by monitoring the evolution of moving cumulus in daytime GOES imagery. Submitted for the IHOP Special Issue of Monthly Weather Review.

Mecikalski, J. R., and K. M. Bedka, 2005: Forecasting convective initiation by monitoring the evolution of moving cumulus in daytime GOES imagery. Accepted to the IHOP Special Issue of Monthly Weather Review.

Mecikalski, J. R., S. J. Paech, and K. M. Bedka, 2005: Correlating satellite infrared trends, total lightning, and rainfall with convective initiation and development. Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Turbulence

Wimmers, A. J., and J.L. Moody, 2001: A fixed-layer estimation of upper tropospheric specific humidity from the GOES water vapor channel: Parameterization and validation of the altered brightness temperature product. J. Geophys. Res., 106 (D15), 17115-17132.

Wimmers, A. J. and J. L. Moody, 2003a: Tropopause folding at satellite-observed spatial gradients, I. Verification of an empirical relationship. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.

Wimmers, A. J. and J. L. Moody, 2003b: Tropopause folding at satellite-observed spatial gradients, II. Development of an empirical model. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.